BORN SCARBOROUGH 1896. ONLY CHILD OF ROBERT & ELIZABETH NEWLOVE, OF 25, CARRINGTON STREET, BOULEVARD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 4, OMDURMERE AVENUE, ROSAMOND STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WAS KILLED AT OPPY WOOD ON 03/05/1917, AGED 22 . HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12TH JULY 1917 AND 7TH SEPTEMBER 1917. * HIS MOTHER RECEIVED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 6 SHILLINGS, ON THE 1ST JANUARY, 1918.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES WILLIAM NEWLOVE 11/712. Born in Scarborough in 1896, James was the only child of Robert and Elizabeth Newlove of 25 Carrington Street, Boulevard, Hull. A Railway Porter before the war, he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 7th September 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. The battalion trained at various camps in Hornsea, Beverley and Ripon before shipping for Egypt in December 1915. They served there over the winter of 1915/16 as a guard against the potential of a Turkish attack on the Suez Canal seen as vital to Britain’s war effort. In the first week of March 1916 they sailed for Marseilles with orders to take up positions in the trenches around Engelbelmer. James served on the Somme throughout the autumn and winter campaign but his luck ran out at Oppy Wood. He was killed in action on 3rd May 1917 like so many of his comrades, and just like them his body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 22 years old. His parents were sent a lonely parcel a few months later. It contained all that remained of their only child: photos, cards, a red book, scissors, a thimble and some shaving equipment. There are no words.
